Stocks, advanced portfolio and multi-currency

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Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:48:22 <1445885302529-4681175.post at n4.nabble.com>
giulc <giuliocv at ymail.com> wrote...

>Thanks sunfish62.
>Indeed I am using the last version, which is 2.6.9. The OS is Linux/Xubuntu.
>I have tried to reproduce the example in section 10.4.2 "Purchasing foreign
>stocks" of the Gnucash tutorial and concepts guide, and it works except for
>that point, i.e. the currency exchange rate used for both "Basis" and
>"Value" columns seems to be today's one, instead for "Basis" I think it
>should be the one used in the day of the transaction/buy.
>As a check I've observed the following: if I manually change today's
>currency rate, from e.g. AUD to EUR, in the "CURRENCY" tree of the price
>editor, both values of the report do change (which to me seems wrong). On
>the contrary, if I manually change today's value of the stock in the price
>editor --> "FUND" --> whatever is the brokerage account.. only the "Value"
>column changes, but not the "Basis" (which looks correct).
>The brokerage account is properly set, i.e. in the currency of the stock
>(say, AUD), while my base accounts are in EUR. So I don't think my issue is
>the same of that of Stefano.
>Thanks in advance,
>G.

Did you specifically and separately transfer some EUR to AUD and *then* 
use the AUD to buy the AUD priced stock?

Is the stock actually priced in the currency you used to buy it?  Some 
stocks are traded in currencies different to the "home" currency of the 
exchange they are traded on (e.g. a USD denominated stock on the LSE)

To try and isolate if it is the report or the way you have entered / set 
up things do you get the correct figures if you look at balance sheets 
at basis date and today making sure you use "Nearest in time"?

Also, do you use Trading Accounts or not?

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